Hi Michael:
Very interesting. I am a naive user here. How do I
tell if my USB sticks are formatted as floppies or
hard drives? Is this a function of FreeDOS or
WindowsXP format? All my sticks have an MBR
in the first 512 bytes. Are you saying that
yours do not?
Also, what is the media byte
At 07:47 AM 2/24/2006 -0500, Mark Bailey wrote:
Very interesting. I am a naive user here. How do I
tell if my USB sticks are formatted as floppies or
hard drives?
If you don't have a low-level disk editor of some type, you can either use
Bart's utilities' MKBT to read a boot disk image from
Michael Devore wrote:
At 07:47 AM 2/24/2006 -0500, Mark Bailey wrote:
If you don't have a low-level disk editor of some type, you can either
use Bart's utilities' MKBT to read a boot disk image from the flash disk
and examine it for a valid partition information etc., or you can use
Michael Devore wrote:
At 07:47 AM 2/24/2006 -0500, Mark Bailey wrote:
Hi Michael:
Thanks again for your help. I have now found a link on
how to format a stick as either a superfloppy or
with an MBR. It does this from Linux, but I begin
to understand what is happening. Linux devices I
replaced in command, DIR.C
void printLFNname(char *shortName,char *ext)
...
if (strchr(shortName,'~') == NULL) // ask for LFN only if
necessary
return;
with
if (strlen(shortName) != 8) // ask for LFN only if
necessary
